One of many liberal failures this past year is giving Steven Bannon and his Breitbart lie factory a pass.
Through my climate science blogging/debating I’ve been familiar with the liar and his Breitbart monstrosity of focused agenda driven hatred and divisiveness based on emotionalized lies - without the slightest concern for what is true and what is not - for years.
It’s the negative impact and confusion factor of their stories that are their only concern.

Bannon more than anyone (well after the Mercers*) is the key to Trump’s success and to appreciating the baseness of Trump himself.
Finally we can learn more about this creature, his method and madness thanks to a book written by Joshua Green, Devil’s Bargain.

He gives a fascinating, if very painful recounting of Bannon’s road to success, and his ingenious harnessing of pissed-off disaffected White Boys and filling their heads with dreams of Burn Baby Burn. Now here we are.

On Aug. 17, in an effort to change course, the Trump team appointed Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of the conservative Breitbart News, to lead the campaign. Journalist Joshua Green of Bloomberg Businessweek says the switch would prove to be a turning point.

“[Trump] was headed toward a pretty serious loss, and Bannon brought his wealth of anti-Clinton knowledge into the campaign and managed to keep Trump focused on a target,” Green says.

Green argues that Bannon’s experiences with Breitbart gave him a framework for mobilizing disaffected young white male voters who were attracted to Trump. Without such guidance, Green says, “I don’t think that Donald Trump would have been elected president.”

Despite Bannon’s success in the campaign, Green says that the adviser’s nationalist vision remains largely unfulfilled. “The kind of tragic, Shakespearean irony of the Donald Trump-Steve Bannon relationship is that Bannon finally did find the vessel for his ideas who could get elected president ... [but who] now doesn’t have the focus, the wherewithal, the self-control to even do the basic things that a president needs to do.”

Green’s new book, Devil’s Bargain, profiles Bannon and explains his role in Trump’s election.

One of many liberal failures this past year is giving Steven Bannon and his Breitbart lie factory a pass.

How, pray tell, is that a “liberal failure”. Nothing that Bannon or his toadies stand for could possibly be called liberal except by a Trump toady. He is a perfect Trump jackass, as are all Trump supporters.

Through my climate science blogging/debating I’ve been familiar with the liar and his Breitbart monstrosity of focused agenda driven hatred and divisiveness based on emotionalized lies - without the slightest concern for what is true and what is not - for years.
It’s the negative impact and confusion factor of their stories that are their only concern.

Bannon more than anyone (well after the Mercers*) is the key to Trump’s success and to appreciating the baseness of Trump himself.
Finally we can learn more about this creature, his method and madness thanks to a book written by Joshua Green, Devil’s Bargain.

He gives a fascinating, if very painful recounting of Bannon’s road to success, and his ingenious harnessing of pissed-off disaffected White Boys and filling their heads with dreams of Burn Baby Burn. Now here we are.

On Aug. 17, in an effort to change course, the Trump team appointed Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of the conservative Breitbart News, to lead the campaign. Journalist Joshua Green of Bloomberg Businessweek says the switch would prove to be a turning point.

“[Trump] was headed toward a pretty serious loss, and Bannon brought his wealth of anti-Clinton knowledge into the campaign and managed to keep Trump focused on a target,” Green says.

Green argues that Bannon’s experiences with Breitbart gave him a framework for mobilizing disaffected young white male voters who were attracted to Trump. Without such guidance, Green says, “I don’t think that Donald Trump would have been elected president.”

Despite Bannon’s success in the campaign, Green says that the adviser’s nationalist vision remains largely unfulfilled. “The kind of tragic, Shakespearean irony of the Donald Trump-Steve Bannon relationship is that Bannon finally did find the vessel for his ideas who could get elected president ... [but who] now doesn’t have the focus, the wherewithal, the self-control to even do the basic things that a president needs to do.”

Green’s new book, Devil’s Bargain, profiles Bannon and explains his role in Trump’s election.

One of many liberal failures this past year is giving Steven Bannon and his Breitbart lie factory a pass.

How, pray tell, is that a “liberal failure”. Nothing that Bannon or his toadies stand for could possibly be called liberal except by a Trump toady. He is a perfect Trump jackass, as are all Trump supporters.

Ignoring him and not meeting his/their lies head on.
Allowing their brand of hate-baiting and lying about facts to become mainstreamed without opposition.

Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled chief strategist who helped President Trump win the 2016 election by embracing their shared nationalist impulses, departed the White House on Friday after a turbulent tenure in which he shaped the fiery populism of the president’s first seven months in office.

Mr. Bannon’s exit, the latest in a string of high-profile West Wing shake-ups, came as Mr. Trump is under fire for saying that “both sides” were to blame for the deadly violence at a Virginia rally last week. Critics of Mr. Bannon accused the president of channeling his chief strategist when he equated white supremacists and neo-Nazis with the left-wing protesters who opposed them.

“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a statement. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”

I’ll bet they are grateful for his services, he’s the mad genius who with the help of the Mercers put Trump in the White House - based on a campaign of lies and maliciously misrepresenting opponents - oh, and being allowed to do so with barely a discouraging word heard for the smug dozing Democratic Party members.

The end of Stephen K. Bannon’s stormy White House tenure frees the investment banker turned populist messenger to expand his reach as a potent force in the media landscape, giving him an elevated platform for the nationalist movement he has long championed.

Bannon will do so in conjunction with the wealthy Mercer family, conservative mega-donors who served as his patrons in an array of enterprises before he joined the Trump campaign.

The former chief strategist for President Trump is returning as executive chairman of Mercer-backed Breitbart News, the pugilistic conservative website he helped guide before joining Trump’s campaign last August, Breitbart announced.

Yes in the past week there seems to be a little bit of waking up happening.

Hopefully, lefties are finally realizing how determined and utterer ruthless the Alt-Right supremacist/anarchist extremists are - and that if they want to save progressive, enlightened values they are going to have to stand up and speak up.

A healthy democracy DEMANDS an enlighten, informed and engaged public.

One of many liberal failures this past year is giving Steven Bannon and his Breitbart lie factory a pass.

How, pray tell, is that a “liberal failure”. Nothing that Bannon or his toadies stand for could possibly be called liberal except by a Trump toady. He is a perfect Trump jackass, as are all Trump supporters.

Ignoring him and not meeting his/their lies head on.
Allowing their brand of hate-baiting and lying about facts to become mainstreamed without opposition.

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But who has done that? Nobody on the left that I know voted for him. There was tremendous opposition and, in fact, Clinton won the popular vote. Don’t tell me about a lack of opposition. What we have is a really corrupt election system. . The electoral college is the worst of it.

Good point Lois - everyone, Dems included, keep looking for the big WHY Dems lost. We keep getting all these excuses…didn’t offer a plan, didn’t listen to the little guy, etc. Bull. Hillary won by 3 million votes. She did something right. It’s the system that’s jacked up, the electoral college, not the Dems message (though that doesn’t mean it can’t stand a little improvement along the lines of Bernie-fying it). And so we’ll go another four years with the DNC trying this or that messaging when what it should focus on is getting rid of the electoral college, either whole hog or by side stepping it but getting states to change their law so that electors must wait til votes have been cast and then they have to vote for whoever got the popular vote…all the electors en masse.

Good point Lois - everyone, Dems included, keep looking for the big WHY Dems lost. We keep getting all these excuses…didn’t offer a plan, didn’t listen to the little guy, etc. Bull. Hillary won by 3 million votes. She did something right. It’s the system that’s jacked up, the electoral college, not the Dems message (though that doesn’t mean it can’t stand a little improvement along the lines of Bernie-fying it). And so we’ll go another four years with the DNC trying this or that messaging when what it should focus on is getting rid of the electoral college, either whole hog or by side stepping it but getting states to change their law so that electors must wait til votes have been cast and then they have to vote for whoever got the popular vote…all the electors en masse.

I agree.

Lois

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